Dowie, Manie Muriel

The daughter of a merchant, the granddaughter of a Scottish writer Robert Chambers. She was educated in Liverpool , Stuttgart and France . In addition to her native, she was fluent in German and French. In her young years she traveled a lot. In particular, in the summer of 1890, without satellites, made an equestrian crossing through the Hutsul and Pokutye , passed along Montenegro . The traveler traveled to Kolomyia , Delyatina , Kosovo , Zhabiem ( Verkhovyna ), drove through Lviv . The traveler described the impressions of this trip in her literary debut, the book A Girl in the Karpathians , published in 1891 by G. Philip & Son . The book was illustrated with drawings made by the author’s sister based on Dowie's travel sketches. After returning to Western Europe, the writer read a series of lectures and stories about her travels in the Carpathians .

"Girl in the Carpathians" withstood several editions, three of them in the first year of publication (1891).

In 1891, Dowie married the journalist and travel writer Henry Norman. Dowie and Norman traveled a lot and engaged in literary activities, in 1897 their son Henry Nigel was born. In 1903, after a scandal in which Norman accused Dowie of adultery with mountaineer Edward Fitzgerald, the couple divorced. On August 13, 1903, Dowie married Fitzgerald. ^[1] This marriage was childless. Dowie ceased to engage in literary work, but continued to travel a lot. After acquiring a farm in England, Dowie began raising cattle and exporting them to Mombasa , Kenya . Dowie and Fitzgerald divorced in 1928. In 1941, she immigrated to the United States .

• “A Girl in the Karpathians”, 1891.
• "Gallia" (Gallia), 1895.
• The Bend of a Branch (The Crook of the Bough), 1898.
• “Love and His Mask” (Love and His Mask), 1901.

• Stephanie Forward: sv "Dowie, Ménie Muriel". The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English , ed. Lorna Sage ( CUP : Cambridge, 1999).
• Helen Small: "Chronology of Dowie's Life and Times" and "Introduction". Ménie Muriel Dowie: Gallia (= Everyman's Library) (JM Dent: London, 1995) viii-xlii.